Siengthai / Lawler / Rowley The Multi-Dimensions of Industrial Relations in the Asian Knowledge-Based Economies

Multi-Dimensions of Industrial Relations in the Asian Knowledge-Based Economies
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-78063-243-8
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten

This collection of work by leading scholars investigates the impact of the globalization process on some selected Asian economies and societies. With particular focus on the role of institutional factors such as labour unions or workers' associations, case studies are presented on labour-management relations at the workplace that have evolved to cope with globalization. The cases describe labour institutions in the society as a social force that acts as a catalyst for societal democracy and for industrial democracy at the workplace. These cases provide descriptions of the changes in the management's stance and approaches towards labour unions in the selected countries as well as at the organizational level over the last three decades when much of the industrialization process has occurred in Asia.
A case study approach which enhances analytical and problem-solving skills of studentsA focus on the impact of globalization process in the East and Southeast Asia which is becoming more significant in the new economyPrepared by local Asian research scholars

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siengthai, Sununta

Lawler, John

Rowley, Chris

Suzuki, Hiromasa

Leseproben

About the Authors
Dr. Maragtas S.V. AMANTE is currently a full professor of the College of Economics and Business Administration, Hanyang University in Ansan, Korea. Before joining Hanyang University, Prof. Amante had been a Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) – JETRO, in Tokyo early in 2007 and was a full professor at the School of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research and consultancy work in the areas of industrial relations, economics of human resources, and compensation. His research, publications and advocacy emphasize the interdisciplinary approach, using the tools of the social sciences, law and management, to promote decent work, and innovative resolution of issues in employment relations. He had performed consultancy work for various stakeholders in industrial relations, including trade unions, employers, and government. From 2002 to 2006, Dr Amante was a consultant and facilitator with the ASEAN Secretariat and the Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, on a series of meetings and dialogues in various ASEAN capitals, with government, employers and workers representatives to develop a common regional framework of industrial relations, to sustain economic integration in East Asia. Dr. Katsuyuki KUBO is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Commerce, Waseda University. Previously, he spent three years as a lecturer of economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University. Dr. Kubo received his B.A., M.A. in economics from Keio University and Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics. Dr. Kubo teaches and researches in the area of compensation and incentive strategy, corporate governance, labor economics and organizational economics. Dr. Kubo’s research is in the area of corporate governance, executive compensation and performance related pay in the workplace. In particular, he is interested in whether top managers have financial incentive to work for various stakeholders of the firm, i.e., employees. He also analyzes the impact of merger activities on employment conditions, such as employment and wages. His main works include “The Relationship between Financial Incentives for Company Presidents and Firm Performance in Japan”, Japanese Economic Review (2008) with Takuji Saito, “The Determinants of Executive Compensation in Japan and U.K: Agency Hypothesis or Joint Determination Hypothesis?” (2003), in Fan, J.; Teranishi, J.; and Hanazaki, J. (eds.) Designing Financial Systems in East Asia & Japan, Routledge. Dr. John J. LAWLER is currently a Full Professor of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. Professor Lawler has been teaching and researching for over 30 years in the areas of HRM and industrial relations. He has been teaching and researching on Asian economies such as Thailand and Taiwan for many years. Dr. Joseph S. LEE is a full professor at the National Central University, Taiwan. Prof. Lee currently is Wen Say-ling Chair professor of management at National Central University and director of Institute of Knowledge Economy and Management. He received his Ph. D. degree in economics from University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Earlier, he was a professor of economics at Minnesota State University for 22 years before he returned to Taiwan and became vice president of Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research, and Dean of School of Management at National Central University. Professor Lee’s major research interest is in Labor relations, Knowledge-based Economy, Human Resource Management, and Economic Eevelopment. He has published many books and articles in professional journals, including, “The Role of SMEs in Taiwan’s Development Process,” “US Direct Investment in China” (with Lawrence Lau and K.C. Fung), “The New Knowledge Economy of Taiwan” “Labor Market and Economic Development in Taiwan”. Professor Lee is also an active member in community service. Currently he is the President of Association of Industrial Relations, Taiwan. He is also a member of editorial board of several international scholarly journals, Dr. Young-bum PARK is a Professor of Economics at Hansung University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and teaches labor economics and industrial relations. He hold a PhD in Economics from Cornell University. From 1988 until February 1997 he was a senior research fellow at the Korea Labor Institute-a government-sponsored research institute examining labor issues. Professor Park has published extensively on industrial relations, economics and related fields in Korea and Asia. He has also participated in many government committees related to labor issues. From May 1999 to December 2007 Professor Park was a member of the Presidential Tripartite Commission of the Republic of Korea. Since January 2008 he has been the chairperson of the Evaluation Committee of Policies of the Labor Ministry. Dr. Chris ROWLEY (BA, MA-Warwick, D.Phil-Oxford) is Professor of Human Resource Management, Editor of the leading journal Asia Pacific Business Review and book Series Editor for ‘Studies in Asia Pacific Business’ and ‘Asian Studies: Contemporary Issues and Trends’. He has taught at Cardiff Business School and the University of London. His previous employment experience includes a variety of work in the public and private sectors. He has given range of talks and lectures to universities and companies internationally. He has had consultancy experience with unions, business enterprises and government departments. Professor Rowley researches in a range of areas, including international and comparative human resource management and Asia Pacific management and business, especially in Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. Recently he has been awarded a research grant from the British Academy to examine employment practices in Korean multinational companies in Malaysia (2003), an ESRC AIM International Study Fellowship for UK-Korean comparisons in management research and practice (2004) and a British Academy grant for analysis of Korean companies in Thailand (2005). Professor Rowley has published very widely, with over 100 articles, over 70 book chapters and other contributions and 16 edited and sole authored books. He has recently co-edited Globalization and Labor in the Asia Pacific Region (2001), Managing Korean Business (2002), The Management of Human Resources in the Asia Pacific Region (2003) and Globalization and Competition: Big Business in Asia (2005). He has also written The Management of People: HRM in Context (2003) and regularly contributed to Mastering Management Online from the Financial Times. Dr. Sununta SIENGTHAI (B.A., Chulalongkorn University, 1975; M. A., 1979 and Ph.D., 1984, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been a full-time associate professor of the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology (A.I.T.) since 1999. She has been teaching, training and extensively and intensively researching for over 20 years in the areas of Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations and Organizational Behavior in the public and private sector organizations. Her research exposures include being a tenure faculty at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) and at Thammasat University in Thailand, a research fellow of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), the JSPS Fellow at the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Citibank Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Michigan at Ann-Arbor (under the Fulbright Senior Visiting Program). She has publications include articles in the international referee journals such as International Studies of Management and Organization, Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ), Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, and Journal of Workplace Learning as well as book chapters, conference proceedings. She has served in various administrative roles in the universities and is an editorial board member of the Research and Practice in Human Resource Management Journal. She has served in an advisory role to the Thai Government and an external collaborator for the United Nations Agencies such as ILO, UNDP, JICA, etc. over the past years. She has written about industrial relations in Thailand and believes in the constructive role of labor unions. Dr. Hiromasa SUZUKI received his doctorate from University of Rouen (France). He is Professor of Labor Economics at the Waseda University, Faculty of Commerce, Tokyo (Japan). From 1970 to 1986, he served the I.L.O., Geneva (Switzerland) as research officer in the field of wages and industrial relations. Prof. Suzuki was an exchange professor at the Colorado College, Co. (U.S.A.) (1995-1996), invited researcher at the C.N.R.S. (National Center for Scientific Research), 1998 and taught in Lima, Peru, at ES AN Business School (July-August 2003). Currently he is teaching Labor Economics at the Faculty and Employment Relations at the Graduate School of Waseda University. He holds also a special researcher’s position at the Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training. His current research centers on employment issues, such as diversification of forms of employment,...